This booklet - along side the 2 volumes LNCS 5226 and LNAI 5227 - constitutes the refereed complaints of the Fourth overseas convention on clever Computing, ICIC 2008, held in Shanghai, China in September 2008. The clever computing know-how features a variety of suggestions corresponding to man made intelligence, perceptual and development reputation, evolutionary and adaptive computing, informatics theories and functions, computational neuroscience and bioscience, gentle computing, case established and restricted reasoning, brokers, networking and computing device supported co-operative operating, human machine interface concerns. ICIC subject unifies the image of up to date clever computing options as an necessary idea that highlights the traits in complicated computational intelligence and bridges theoretical examine with purposes.

This ebook constitutes the court cases of the second one foreign convention on community Computing and data safeguard, NCIS 2012, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2012. The 104 revised papers offered during this quantity have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from 517 submissions. they're geared up in topical sections named: purposes of cryptography; authentication and non-repudiation; cloud computing; communique and knowledge platforms; layout and research of cryptographic algorithms; details hiding and watermarking; clever networked platforms; multimedia computing and intelligence; community and instant community safeguard; community communique; parallel and disbursed structures; protection modeling and architectures; sensor community; sign and data processing; virtualization strategies and purposes; and instant community.

This quantity of Advances in clever and delicate Computing includes approved papers offered at SOCO 2010 held within the appealing and ancient urban of Guimarães, Portugal, June 2010. This quantity offers the papers authorised for the 2010 variation, either for the most occasion and the unique periods. SOCO 2010 certain periods are a really useful gizmo in an effort to supplement the normal software with new or rising issues of specific curiosity to the partaking neighborhood.

The Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI) begun as a workshop held in 2003 in San Sebastián (Spain) lower than the Spanish man made Intelligence convention. This occasion accrued 32 attendees and 18 papers have been awarded. the second one variation, already as a Symposium, came about in Granada (Spain) lower than the 1st Spanish desktop technological know-how convention (CEDI).

Optimization recommendations have constructed right into a modern day answer for real-world difficulties in numerous industries. in an effort to increase functionality and deal with problems with uncertainty, optimization examine turns into a subject matter of precise curiosity throughout disciplines. challenge fixing and Uncertainty Modeling via Optimization and delicate Computing purposes provides the most recent examine developments and advancements within the zone of utilized optimization methodologies and delicate computing suggestions for fixing advanced difficulties.

4) Stopping criterion. The stopping criterion of the AC algorithm could be the maximal number of running cycles or the CPU time limit. 3 Vehicle Routing Problem The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is described as a weighted graph G= where the nodes are represented by N=(N0,N1,…,NM) and the arcs are represented by E={(Ni,Nj):i≠j}, shown as in Fig. 1. In this graph model, N0 is the central depot and the other nodes are the M customers to be served. Each node is associated with a fixed quantity qi of goods to be delivered (a quantity q0=0 is associated to the depot N0).

Cn Abstract. Vehicle routing problem becomes more remarkable with the development of modern logistics. Ant colony and genetic algorithm are combined for solving vehicle routing problem. GA can overcome the drawback of premature and weak exploitation capabilities of ant colony and converge to the global optimal quickly. The performance of the proposed method as compared to those of the genetic-based approaches is very promising. Keywords: ant colony, vehicle routing problem, genetic algorithm. 1 Introduction Many heuristic methods currently used in combinatorial optimization are inspired by adaptive natural behaviors or natural systems, such as genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, neural networks, etc.